CVE-2017-11166 — Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime in Imagemagick

CWE-772 — Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime8 documents6 sources
Severity
6.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.2%
top 60.21%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
ImagemagickDebian Imagemagick
Timeline
PublishedJul 10
Latest updateMay 13

Description

The ReadXWDImage function in coders\xwd.c in ImageMagick 7.0.5-6 has a memory leak vulnerability that can cause memory exhaustion via a crafted length (number of color-map entries) field in the header of an XWD file.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages3 packages

▶debiandebian/imagemagick< imagemagick 8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-7 (bookworm)
▶Debianimagemagick/imagemagick< 8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-7+3

Patches

Patch: github.com ↗Patch: github.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-4f9f-75v9-v6v4: The ReadXWDImage function in coders\xwd↗2022-05-13
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OSV
CVE-2017-11166: The ReadXWDImage function in coders\xwd↗2017-07-10
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
ImageMagick: memory leak vulnerability in ReadXWDImage function in coders/xwd.c↗2017-05-04
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Debian
CVE-2017-11166: imagemagick - The ReadXWDImage function in coders\xwd.c in ImageMagick 7.0.5-6 has a memory le...↗2017
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💬Community

3
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-11166 ImageMagick: memory leak vulnerability in ReadXWDImage function in coders/xwd.c↗2019-11-14
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Bugzilla
CVE-2017-11166 ImageMagick: memory leak vulnerability in ReadXWDImage function in coders/xwd.c [epel-8]↗2019-11-14
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Bugzilla
CVE-2017-11166 ImageMagick: memory leak vulnerability in ReadXWDImage function in coders/xwd.c [fedora-all]↗2019-11-14
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